many sins – it is, after all, what lost Eve who, even in her preternatural state, was curious to have the knowledge of Good and Evil. Just look at how advertisements work. Have you noticed how, often in order to sell anything – a car, a house, a swimming pool… – , a scantily clad woman will appear on the scene? Advertisers know that by putting the woman there, most men will have a close look at the advertisement in order to see the woman, and they will be more inclined to purchase. In day to day life, if there is an opening to male curiosity – because your skirt is short, or the neckline plunges low or the whole thing fits so tightly that the shape of your body is all too evident – then you can be absolutely certain that most of the men who see you will be curious to see more. That is the law of fallen human nature. To be ignorant of it is tragic; to ignore it willingly is sinful folly. I believe I can hear you thinking : “but if the men were chaste, I wouldn’t have to worry about my clothing!” To a certain extent that is true, but it is equally true that you need to help the men be chaste by having reverence for your own body. If you don’t revere your own body by covering it modestly, why would the men? Do not ever entertain such thoughts as “how dirty-minded these men are”. Some are, some are not, but they are all men, all part of a fallen Guard your interior castle, that is to say your Christian soul, and its temple, that is your body, with great care… 44
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